Violent non-state actor

While rhetoric and statutes depict the state and police as a faction dedicated to the elimination of drugs, a conspicuous culture of bribery and greed throughout the relevant state institutions shows the state to be complicit in the trade. Much like the social contract upholding property rights in exchange for taxes, the state, particularly the institutions of the police, customs and port authority, and the judiciary were willing to…

Good Neighbour policy was outlined by President Franklin D Roosevelt in his Inauguration Speech on the 4th of March 1933. In this speech, he outlined that unilateral intervention in Latin American affairs was ruled out. It was a policy of non-intervention and non-interference in Latin American domestic affairs in accordance to the Monroe Doctrine. The main aim of the Good Neighbour Policy was to redefine the way in which the Americans saw and perceived Latin Americans. The policy effectively…

international law. Licenses to explore and produce oil represent highly valuable assets for the foreign companies. It is imperative that these contracts are conducted in a more open and competitive manner. Transparency has been replaced instead with the non-performance of contractual obligations, bribery and favoritism. Although there were repeated attempts for the allocation rounds to take place in the public realm, many of the problems don’t take place at this point in the process. The…

will to resist, [they] are just as lethal,” as they instill fear and propagate the discourse of “us” vs. “them” (Capra, 1997, p. 328). The discourse of “good” vs. “evil” and “us” vs. “them” is called Manichean Dualism, and it is used by state and non-state actors to push forth agendas (Rose-Redwood, Geopolitical Codes, 2015). The psychological effects of media are vast, and contribute to building the strength of organizations we are taught to fear. For example, after the attacks in Paris media…

statement about how liberalism, as a theoretical perspective, explains ISIS and their rise in power. ISIS: Background and Facts on the Case ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), was formed in 1999 and is currently lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The stated goal of ISIS is to form an “Islamic Caliphate”, a unified region of Muslim states under a single theocratic rule. ISIS began as a splinter group from al-Qaeda in Iraq, but has only gained significant standing on the world stage after…

in a violent, fit killed your little kid by accident. They will never grow up, they will never have a favorite baseball team, they will never go to school, and they will never have a family. However, the teenager isn’t going to jail. They are getting declared as “in need of supervision”, and put into social services. Your little kid isn’t getting justice, and the dangerous teen isn’t getting punished in a way that he deserves for ending a life. The justice system is too lenient on violent…

The most fearsome of all, is the risk that an extremist terrorist group, rather than a nation-state, could trigger the first nuclear war in history. This, however, is not recent news, with violent extremist organizations, such as al-Qaida, having voiced their interest in utilizing nuclear weapons against western states for well over a decade. Although this potential threat is not from a nuclear-armed state, the risk of a catastrophic nuclear attack seems to increase with each passing day.…

Relations- Man, the State and War (1959), Theory of International Politics (1979) and The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May be Better (1981). However, his greatest legacy to the field of International Politics was his study that facilitated the revival/resurrection of realism. Realism is the objective study of global phenomena and behavioral patterns of state and non-state actors in the international realm. It attributes raison d’état to state behavior and justifies real-time state actions by…

They completed the role in which the actor was portraying. In addition, the costumes helped influence the audience of the time period and demeanor of each character. It gave them the visual to see who was rich or poor, young or old, and established the mood. The costumes illustrated to the audience the tragedy. The beaten worn out clothes of Todd, Mrs. Lovett, and Tobias Ragg showed their depressing state. The gallons of blood dripping from the victims throats after they…

in a row, not a single black actor received a nomination this year for the Academy Awards ceremony. Are white actors any better than black actors or is the Academy racist? What is keeping perfectly qualified black entertainers from getting any recognition? This deeply cut into the long going conversation about opportunities in entertainment for people of color and inequalities between white and black actors in the entertainment industry. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, actor Will Smith, and director…